Event at Brooklands
Well, thanks to Staircase and some others, we managed to get 5 ex 55 Sqn participants down to Brooklands on 8.May for the Great Air Race reception.
Nice to see the other participants from various categories - and to see the First and Fastest exhibit, with the Vickers Vimy replica and the beautifully restored Harrier, which was flown by Sqn Ldr Lecky Thompson.
We'll have to do it again in 50 years...
According to the Galway Daily, the statue of Alcock and Brown is temporarily in Cliften, Ireland (in the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel) as part of the 100 year anniversary of their flight in June 1919.